About Luke Stevenson

Luke Stevenson is Community Care’s children’s social care journalist

Author Archive | Luke Stevenson

Children

Google supports ‘transformative’ smartphone app for homeless young people

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Children, Child safeguarding

Children services in Rotherham to be inspected early by Ofsted

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Children, Workforce, Child safeguarding

NSPCC calls for tougher laws to deal with those who fail children following Rotherham scandal

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HCPC

Children, Workforce, Child safeguarding

HCPC investigating whether to take fitness to practice action following Rotherham inquiry

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Children

‘It’s easier that way’: Why a third of child sexual exploitation victims are overlooked

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Children, Child safeguarding

Child sexual abuse ‘suppressed or ignored’ in Rotherham, finds damning inquiry

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Children

Unique family support programme ‘keeps families together’ in Wales

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Children

Most councils in England are not measuring the scale of child neglect

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Children

Safeguarding chair accuses government policies of creating risk for children

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Children

Cameron announces funding boost and extra support for troubled families and adoption

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Children, Legal

How new civil prevention orders could improve child safeguarding practice

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Children, Workforce

Social workers don’t understand probation and youth offending roles, report finds

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Children, Mental Health

Children facing ‘unacceptable’ delays for mental health care, say council leaders

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Children

Care applications reached all time high in July, Cafcass reveals

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Children

Social work faces knock-on effect from youth service cut backs

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Children

Foster carers to get training to enhance children’s educational prospects

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